54 GLENHOVE
54 GLENHOVE Melrose Estate
DEVELOPER Alchemy Properties
ARCHITECT Paragon Architects
PROJECT MANAGER CAPEX Projects
QUANTITY SURVEYOR Rider Levett Bucknall
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Pierre Badenhorst
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Quad Africa
MECHANICAL ENGINEER Adaptive Resource Engineers
HEALTH & SAFETY CONSULTANT Cairnmead Industrial Consultants
FIRE CONSULTANT TWCE
LANDSCAPING Countryline Africa
MAIN CONTRACTOR ASTEK Group
PHOTOGRAPHY Tristan McLaren
The new development at 54 Glenhove in Melrose Estate was completed during July 2016 . The building has a total rentable area of 5,687m 2 . Half of the building will be occupied by the Johannesburg office of the auditing , accounting , tax and advisory firm , Mazars . The developers of the project , Alchemy , have also taken space in the building with the balance being let to other tenants , including Stonehage Fleming , Schneier & London and Stonewood .
ARCHITECT ’ S REPORT The building exploits its location close to the M1 highway on Glenhove Road and its refreshing adjacency to the Houghton Golf Course . The architectural character and function of Glenhove Road has changed considerably over the last decade and this building seeks to establish a strong business identity without overwhelming the adjacent residential components .
The building form sits atop a podium which appears almost as a lily pad and explores bold rectinlinear shapes with fenestrated blocks piercing the exoskeleton of the monolithic structure . The windows appear as dense gems expressed in highly reflective glass which contributes to the control of emisivity of the building .
The H-shaped plan has been designed in a manner to allow for a single tenant or , in this case , a number of tenants . The east and west wings are separated by an atrium and connected with bridges , enclosed in a double skinned integument which allows light but reduces heat . This contributes to the occupants receiving
The building form sits atop a raised landscaped podium as a pair of two bold rectilinear shapes
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